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21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
A large and amazing butterfly, vivid purple-blue on the top and completely disguised on the bottom of it's wings, seen at the Callaway Gardens Butterfly House.

This butterfly, a Purple Mort Bleu, was beautiful and almost iridescent purple-blue on top when flying around, but the lower side of wings gives it a completely different disguise. I could never capture a photo because it was very skittish when people were near. But then it landed on a cut-up pineapple and gave me a chance to shoot, even in the very low light.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2023
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Pine Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Camera: NIKON D7500
Copyright: © Suzanne Haley